l did that about 3 weeks ago and l'm glad l made the move over from torrents. Signed up with astraweb and paid about £7 for 10gb worth of downloads, you can also get 120gb worth of downloads for about £17, no time limit on when you use them. l dunno what speed you are on for your internet but l,m on 10meg cable and l get a solid constant 1.2mb per sec download speed. l use newsleecher for my newsreader.
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Look into it mate, l used to think torrents were ok but newsgroups take things to a whole new level if you dont mind paying a small amount of cash for the privilege.